Battle of Runet: how the authorities manipulate information and monitor each of us

Was the prophecy of George Orwell and Big Brother is watching you realized? What do special services know about you and how do they get this information? The book was written by the stars of Russian investigative journalism Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. They talked with dozens of specialists, analyzed hundreds of documents and concluded: the authorities not only want to know everything about everyone, but also try to maintain a monopoly on the dissemination of information. The book describes the history of surveillance of citizens-from the telephone wiretapping of the 1930s to modern technologies of SORM and the scandalous “Spring package”-and shows that, despite all the efforts of censors, the Internet remains technology, which is still impossible to put under full control